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Police Vulture Training Not a Success

Posted by samzenpus on from the didn't-have-the-stomach-for-it dept.

rbrausse writes "Some time ago Slashdot covered the German police vulture training scheme; now it is time for a follow-up. BBC reports that the project has failed to take off. The trained vulture hasn't shown interest in working as a detective and confuses human with animal remains. Additionally the bird is shy and prefers to travel by foot."

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  1. Re:premature by aix+tom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's the problem these days.

    If humans had ever thought that way, we'd still be living in caves. Very few people who ever started something like a cathedral ever saw it finished.